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Evening Newscast 05-31-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Evening Newscast 05-31-18

The Montana State Hospital has changed some policies, and plans to increase staffing and improve training.

An agriculture organization that includes Montana farmers said today that the new steel and aluminum tariffs announced by the Trump Administration will take farm operations “to the breaking point.”

Attorney General Tim Fox’s office is cheering a ruling by a federal judge yesterday.

Some Western lawmakers and energy industry officials are blaming Washington and Oregon for unfairly picking “winners and losers,” by opposing Millennium Bulk Terminal.

A man was killed when he was hit by a BNSF Railway work train in Wolf Point.

A northwestern Montana man pleaded not guilty to deliberate homicide in the April 25 shooting death of a man at the victim's residence in Hungry Horse.

Continued fossil fuel development was in the spotlight at a so-called Energy Summit in Billings today.

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